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Africa Check Executive Director, Peter Cunliffe-Jones (L) awards winner Arison Tamfu on December 8, 2016 during a ceremony in Nairobi, for the second best investigative fact-checking carried out by African journalists this year for his investigative piece on apparently misleading claims made at a press conference by the minister of higher Education in Cameroon that President Biya would be providing 500,000 laptops to each student of a public or private university in Cameroon.
This is the third year of the African Fact-Checking Awards, honouring the best investigative reporting that exposes misleading claims made by leading public figures across the continent. 130 entries from 22 countries were received this year from Morocco and Egypt in the north to South Africa and Zimbabwe in the South. / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBATONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images